Time Use and Transfers in the Americas Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Urdinola, B. Piedad (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tovar, Jorge A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Population.; Demography.; Population Economics.

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which r...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Time Use Differences and Similarities between Developed and Emerging Economies in the Americas: Gretchen Donehower, B.Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar
• Chapter 2. Home and Market Production Time Use Differentials in Colombia: B. Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar
• Chapter 3. Time Use Patterns by Educational Level in Costa Rica: Pamela Jimémez-Fontana
• Chapter 4. Gender Differences in Home Production in Uruguay: Cecilia Lara, Cecilia González, Marisa Bucheli
• Chapter 5. Gender and Work for US Residents of Latin American and Caribbean Ancestry: Gretchen Donehouwer
• Conclusions and final observations: B. Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar.